When bad threads rear their ugly head.

[devonin]

As happens in any forum anywhere on the internet, there will always be times when people start a thread in a place they shouldn't, or start a meaningless thread that adds nothing to -any- forum.

The standards of thread-making in CT are higher than elsewhere on the site, and so the number of threads that are outright pointless and irrelevant will be higher.

However, along with the higher standards of thread-making, there are also higher standards of posting. You aren't supposed to post in this forum unless you have something to contribute, something useful to add to the discussion at hand.

With that said, I've noticed all over this website a propensity, when someone posts an irellevant thread, to rush to get an equally meaningless, often flamey or trolly post "In before lock"

This is (to me anyway) just as bad as the poorly thought out thread in which you are posting. It inflates postcount with crap, it increases the number of totally useless posts clogging up the forum, the subforum, and the search parameters, and it just encourages return flaming, and generally just creates more annoying work for the moderators.

I move that in the exact same way that users who post in CT repeatedly without contributing or otherwise following the rules of the forum are warned and eventually punished, the people who jump on the IBL bandwagon and give attention to stupid pointless threads by adding in stupid pointless responses suffer the same fate.